Paper terminal

See paper.png to see what this looks like!

Writes a file to a paper in your terminal. Especially if that file is Markdown! Features supported include:

1. The usual text, and paragraphs with automatic line-wrapping. You can manually wrap with
   hard breaks as expected.

   Otherwise, paragraphs will be nicely spaced.

2. Headings

3. Bold / Italic / Bold and Italic / Strikethrough

4. Lists

   • Ordered
   • Unordered
     • Nested

5. Rules

6. Inline code

7. Code blocks, with syncat integration for syntax highlighting. Note that you must install syncat and make the syncat executable available on your path for this to work.

   fn main() {
       println!("Hello world");
   }

8. Blockquotes

   Blockquotes

   And even nested block quotes

9. And even images! Here's a photo of my cat

   

10. Task lists:

    • Easy
    • Hard

11. Footnotes¹

12. Tables

Comparison with other command line Markdown renderers

Not a very good comparison... this is more of an example of a table!

Tool	CommonMark	Paper	Paging	Wrapping	Syntax	Images	Tables	Looks good*
foxfriends/paper-terminal	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	syncat	Pixelated	Yes	Yes
ttscoff/mdless	Yes	No	Yes	No	pygmentize	Sometimes	Yes	No
lunaryorn/mdcat	Yes	No	No	No	syntect	Sometimes	No	No

* subjective

Styling

Paper uses syncat stylesheets to allow full customization of styling. See the default stylesheet (src/default.syncat) as an example of how this works. To override the default styles, create paper.syncat in your active syncat theme.

• Different scopes are represented as nodes, inspired by the corresponding HTML tag names.

  • h1 through h6
  • strong
  • emphasis
  • strikethrough
  • code
  • blockquote
  • ul, ol, li
  • footnote-ref, footnote-def, footnote
  • table
  • caption
  • link

• The paper and shadow can be matched with paper and shadow. Styles applied to paper are applied to everything.

• The "prefix" and "suffix" tokens can be used to match the decorations

  • List item bullets
  • Blockquote markers
  • Code block margins

• The "lang-tag" token matches the language name written in the bottom corner of the code block

• You can apply styles to code blocks with a specific language by using the language name as the token

For now, the prefix/suffix contents are not customizable, but this may be added in future if it is desired.

Installation

Paper can be installed from crates.io using Cargo:

cargo install paper-terminal

Usage

# Print the help
paper --help

# Render README.md
paper README.md

# Render README.md, with syntax highlighting
paper README.md -s

paper 0.1.0
Cameron Eldridge <cameldridge+git@gmail.com>
Prints papers in your terminal

USAGE:
    paper [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [file]...

FLAGS:
        --dev          Print in debug mode
        --help         Prints help information
    -u, --hide-urls    Hide link URLs
    -i, --no-images    Disable drawing images
    -p, --plain        Don't parse as Markdown, just render the plain text on a paper
    -s, --syncat       Use syncat to highlight code blocks. Requires you have syncat installed.
    -V, --version      Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -h, --h-margin <h-margin>    Horizontal margin (overrides --margin)
    -m, --margin <margin>        Margin (shortcut for horizontal and vertical margin set to the same value) [default:
                                 6]
    -v, --v-margin <v-margin>    Vertical margin (overrides --margin)
    -w, --width <width>          The width of the paper (including the space used for the margin) [default: 92]

ARGS:
    <file>...    Files to print

Footnotes

1. This is the footnote! ↩